Trace-carrier



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM M. SMITHER, OF KEENE, KENTUCKY.

.TRACE-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 293,807, dated February19, 1884. Application filed November 12, 1883. (No model.)

T at whom, it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAlVI M. SMITHEE, acitizen of the =United States, residing at Keene, in the county ofJessamine and. State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Trace- Carriers, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.7

This invention relates to trace-chain carriers for plow and similarharness; and its objects are to carry the chain, to provide a means forholding the back-band in place, and to prevent the driving-lines frombeing caught or interfered with. I accomplish these objects by meanswhich will be hereinafter set forth.

To enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to describe its construction and operation.

In the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, Figure1' represents a plan view of the carrier attached to the backband, andalso a section of chain. Fig. 2 represents a longitudinal section of oneside of the carrier and back-band.

. of the metal at the't'op and middle being re moved or omitted forlightness. From the metal cut away at the center of the plate sufficientis left to form a tongue, D. The plate is bent in such manner that itslower end will be doubled under the upper portion, thus forming twoloops, 0 0, through which the chain passes. The tongue D, it willbeseen, is bent inward, so that it cannot only be made to catch into thelinks of the chain, but will obviate any danger of the lines catchingwhen" they drop upon the outside of the loops. The

plate is bolted or riveted to the band A by the rivets a," x, the rivet:10 confining the two. portions of the plate and the band together atthe same time. The back portion of the loops lying against the band, allwear and tear on said band is prevented. When the chain is adside of thetongue, it (the link) is kept more se-' 'curely in place; 1

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new,-anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As an article of manufacture, a trace-carrier constructed, as hereindescribed, of a single piece of metal having formed upon it a corrugatedtongue, two unbroken supportingloops, and its lower end curved under andprojectingupward, and adapted to be secured to the body of the carrierand to the back-band of the harness by the same rivets, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WM. M. SMITHER.

